17:1  WHEN JESUS had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify {and} exalt {and} honor {and} magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify {and} extol {and} honor {and} magnify You.

17:2  [Just as] You have granted Him power {and} authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him.

17:3  And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true {and} real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.

17:4  I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.

17:5  And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself {and} restore Me to such majesty {and} honor in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed.

17:6  I have manifested Your Name [I have revealed Your very Self, Your real Self] to the people whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have obeyed {and} kept Your word.

17:7  Now [at last] they know {and} understand that all You have given Me belongs to You [is really and truly Yours].

17:8  For the [uttered] words that You gave Me I have given them; and they have received {and} accepted [them] and have come to know positively {and} in reality [to believe with absolute assurance] that I came forth from Your presence, and they have believed {and} are convinced that You did send Me.

17:9  I am praying for them. I am not praying (requesting) for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they belong to You.

17:10  All [things that are] Mine are Yours, and all [things that are] Yours belong to Me; and I am glorified in (through) them. [They have done Me honor; in them My glory is achieved.]

17:11  And [now] I am no more in the world, but these are [still] in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep in Your Name [in the knowledge of Yourself] those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We [are one].

17:12  While I was with them, I kept {and} preserved them in Your Name [in the knowledge and worship of You]. Those You have given Me I guarded {and} protected, and not one of them has perished {or} is lost except the son of perdition [Judas Iscariot--the one who is now doomed to destruction, destined to be lost], that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

17:13  And now I am coming to You; I say these things while I am still in the world, so that My joy may be made full {and} complete {and} perfect in them [that they may experience My delight fulfilled in them, that My enjoyment may be perfected in their own souls, that they may have My gladness within them, filling their hearts].

17:14  I have given {and} delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world [do not belong to the world], just as I am not of the world.

17:15  I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep {and} protect them from the evil one.

17:16  They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), [just] as I am not of the world.

17:17  Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth.

17:18  Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

17:19  And so for their sake {and} on their behalf I sanctify (dedicate, consecrate) Myself, that they also may be sanctified (dedicated, consecrated, made holy) in the Truth.

17:20  Neither for these alone do I pray [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word {and} teaching,

17:21  That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe {and} be convinced that You have sent Me.

17:22  I have given to them the glory {and} honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one:

17:23  I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one {and} perfectly united, that the world may know {and} [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me.

17:24  Father, I desire that they also whom You have entrusted to Me [as Your gift to Me] may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory, which You have given Me [Your love gift to Me]; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

17:25  O just {and} righteous Father, although the world has not known You {and} has failed to recognize You {and} has never acknowledged You, I have known You [continually]; and these men understand {and} know that You have sent Me.

17:26  I have made Your Name known to them {and} revealed Your character {and} Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them.